Error in creating Samba user in Red Hat Linux

I was trying to create a samba user using smbpasswd command as follows:

smbpasswd myuser

After typing the New Password and Confirmed Password as prompted. I got the following errors:

[root@mysystem]# smbpasswd myuser
New SMB password:xxxxxxx
Retype new SMB password:xxxxxxx
Failed to find entry for user myuser.

Answer: (Solved)

Use the command smbpasswd as below
[root@mysystem]#smbpasswd -a myuser
New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:
Added user myuser.

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